Beating machine



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P. R. ASS

BEATNG MACHINE Filed N l I 1919 Patented .inne 12, 1923.

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PERLEY R. GLASS, OF WAYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, ABSIGNOB TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPOEATION, 0.3? PATERSON, NEW JERSEY, A COBPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

BEATING MACHINE.

Application filed November TO (il Z whom it may cmwern:

Be it known that I, PERLEY R. GLAss, a citizen of the United States, residing in Wayland, in the County of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvcments in Boating Machines, of which the following descriptiom in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parte in the several figures.

This invention relates to the finishing of hcots and shoes and more particularly to the covering of heels, which have been already attached thereto, with fleizble material such as leather or fabric.

It has been proposed to cover heels of leather or leather substitutes, after they have been attached to women s shoes, by suitable coverings cut approximately to shape and treated with an adhesive before their application to the heels. After a covering has been applied to a heel it is trimmed so as to leave a narrow projecting edge around the top, which is then tucked into the rand crease. It is, when heels are so covered, desirahle to smooth the portion of the heel cover adjacent to the rand crease and to shape up the covered heel in such a form as will leave a comparatively sharp edge, close up to the counter portion of the upper, as distinguished from a rounded edge with the resulting open and wide rand crease.

An object of my invention is to provide a simple machine well adapted to treat a freshly applied covering on a heel which has been prepared according to the foregoing process to smooth up the portion of the covering adjacent to the shoe upper. This I' may accomplish by the provision of a suitably shaped heating tool reciprocated in a guideway which, preferably is adjustable.

A feature of my invention is the provision in such a machine of means which may be used as a guide to facilitate the presentation of the heel thereto and to protect the upper of the shoe from defacement by the accident-al action of the machine thereon.

These and other features of the invention, including certain details of construction and combinations of parts will now be described with reference to the accompanying draw- 1, 1919. Serial No. :335,201.

ings, which show, for illustrative purposes, a preferred embodiment of my invention and pointed out in the clains. v

Fig. l is a perspective view of the inachine somewhat broken away to better dis close the invention; and

Fig. 2 is a section on iine of Fig. l.

Ehe machine of the drawing is provided with main frame 10 in which is nounted a drive shaft 12 rotated from a suitable source of 'power through tight and loose pulleys 14. This shaft provided with an eccentric 1.6 and with a reduced portion 18 extending beyond the eccentric' and concentric with the main portion of the shaft. Operated by the eccentric and provided with a pair of par allel jaws 20 engaging the same is a pounding or heating tool 22. To limit the movement of the heating tool to the desired path and to guide the reciprocation thereof there is provided a guideway or housing 24 adjustably connected. as by a screw and slot connection 26 to a support 28 rigidly connected to the main fra-me.

Attached to the front of the guideway and forming a part thereof is a plate 30 ta pered at its lower end to form, in effect, a fiange projecting slightly beyond the eX- tremity of the guideway and adapted to enter the rand crease of a shoe held in the hand of the operative and pressed thereby against the pounding tool. To assist in the guiding of the Operating tool the latter is provided with a slot 32 engaging the reduced portion 18 of the shaft. To cover and pro-` tect the upper portion of the reciprocating tool and the eccentric 26 there is preferably provided the housing 34: having an extension 36 directed towards the guideway 24.

In the operation of the machine, shoes to which heel coverings have been freshly applied are held in the hands of the operative and presented thereby to the reciprocating tool in the manner indicated in Fig. 2. The tapered edge of plate 30 forms a narrow guide shaped to enter the rand crease and facilitates the guiding of the shoe as the' latter is-rotated to bring the various parts of' the upper portion of the heel covering into operative relation to the tool. By means of this guide the effect of the tool is easily limited to the desired portion of the heel covering and any inadvertent operation of the tool on the upper of the shoe with a possible defacement thereby is avoded.

j Having described my invention, What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Pate'nt of the United States is: i

e 1, A machine of the class described hav- V in in combnation a reci rocatin tool, a

guide adjacent thereto, and means :tor reciprocating said tool comprising a rotatable j shaft, an eccentric thereon, and a ooncentric porton of said shaft of a reduced diameter beyond said eccentric said tool conprising A a jaw to cmbrace the eccentric, and a siot adapted to be seated over said rednced portion of the shaft to secure rectiiinear move- 'ment of the tool. i

2. A heel smoothng machine having, in

combination, a hammer for heating the lateral surface-of the heelof a Shoe, means for ponnding said hammer against the surface to be beaten, and shoegudng means constructed and' arranged to enter the rand crease' 'of the shoeand protect the npper from the action of-the hammer.

&A heelsmoothing machine having, in co mbination, a hammer for heating the, 1ateral surface of the heci of a shoe, airgd rest on opposite sides of said' hammer, and

a fixed rand crease enterng guide on a third sideo said hammer. e\ r 4. A heel smoothng m'achne having, 1n

.combinatiom'a hammer for heating the lateral surface of? the heei of a shoe, ajrest-on three sides of said hammer, and a' fixed rand crease entel-ing guide ona fourth side of said hammer.` e

5. A machine of the' class described havng, 111 combnaton, a tool, a housing surr Way mounted thereon and arranged for adjustment With respect thereto, a Shoe-'beatng hammer movable, n sad gndeway,

means for poundingfsaid hammer, and a rand c-rease enterng guide rigdly supportedon said gnideway to facilitate the presentation of a shoe to said hammer.`

In testimony whereofl have signed my name to this specificaton. i r PERLEY R. GLASS. 

